Re: [SF] [SF] [ANNOUNCE] sawfish-1.5.0

[Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson googlemail com>]

>> >> > Try:
>> >> >
>> >> >     ./autogen.sh
>> >>
>> >> This gives
>> >>
>> >> Running autoheader
>> >> Running libtoolize
>> >> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
>> >> `aclocal.m4'.
>> >> Running aclocal
>> >> aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Here it gives:
>> >
>> >     ./autogen.sh
>> >     Running autoheader
>> >     Running libtoolize
>> >     libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `./config.guess'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `./config.sub'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `./install-sh'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
>> >     libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
>> >     libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
>> >     libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
>> > Makefile.am. Running aclocal
>> >     Running autoconf
>> >
>> > As you see the m4 dir gets created here out of libtoolize
>> > benevolence, which is part of libtool-2.2.6-11.fc11.i586 RPM.
>> > Is it installed at your end?
>>
>> I have libtool-1.5.24-3.fc8 as you can see it's Fedora 8. The
>> autogen.sh script explicitly checks for libtool 1.5 but that doesn't
>> seem to help. After all the following does create a configure script,
>> instead of running autogen.sh:
>>
>> cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 aclocal.m4
>> autoheader
>> libtoolize --force --copy
>> autoconf
>>

Hi Chris,

> This is wrong. run either ./autogen.sh or manually:

As I've said ./autogen.sh fails. This is the output:

Running autoheader
Running libtoolize
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
Running aclocal
aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory

All of the above is in a freshly unpacked directory. I've opened a bug
report for this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587776


> autoheader
> libtoolize --force --copy
> (depending on libtool version you might also need --install)
> aclocal -I m4
> autoconf

As I've said this also fails. The output of libtoolize --force --copy is

You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.

>> Honestly, I don't quite understand why there is this autogen.sh script
>> anyway. Why can't the packaged archive contain a reasonable configure
>> script to begin with? The rep-gtk code doesn't seem to be more
>> complicated than other software which are happily shipped with a
>> configure script. Or am I overlooking something? In any case the user
>> experience could be increased greatly if the installation of sawfish
>> would not involve all sorts of trickery, but the simple
>>
>
> ... well, normally it is shipped, somehow I forgot it for 0.18.6 (...)

An update would be nice, then.

Cheers,
Daniel

>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> cycle on each of the dependencies (librep, rep-gtk, sawfish).
>>
>> In any case, thanks for the hard work guys, it's good to see that
>> sawfish is alive again!

-- 
Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown